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NTSB, August 25, "Mandatory" PFD
In article ,
(Steven Shelikoff) wrote:
I'd think that 100% of the people who fall out of an airplane without a
parachute will die.
During a bombing raid over Germany on 23rd March, 1944, Flight Sergeant
Nicholas Alkemade, R.A.F., jumped from his Lancaster at 18,000 feet, to
escape the holocaust of the blazing bomber, leaving behind his useless
parachute, that had been torn to shreds by shrapnel. His headlong fall
was broken by a fir tree and he finally landed in an 18 inch snow-drift,
without a single fracture. Naturally, the Luftwaffe authorities were
highly suspicious of his story of falling from such a height without a
parachute, but on investigation they found his shredded and unused
Śchute in the crashed remains of the aircraft.
Alan Magee, a gunner on a B-17 with the 303rd Bomb Group of the U.S. 8th
Air Force, was on a mission to St. Nazaire, France in January of 1943,
when his bomber was set aflame by enemy fire. He was thrown from the
plane before he had a chance to put on his parachute. He fell 20,000
feet and crashed through the skylight of the St. Nazaire train station.
His arm was badly injured, but he recovered from that and other
injuries.
Mo
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